Archive for September 25th, 2009
Some days, I hate traffic jams on my drive in!
by on Sep.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Some times I don’t mind my job, but there are times when the drive to work is reason enough to cause me to retire early. Too many horrible motorists with not enough attention to the roadway. Adding insult to injury, I then hit the drink in my car on the way into the parking stall...
Whatever.
Re-trying our inclusion of theatre rooms combined with home automation …
by on Sep.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Moving starting with lighting control over into in-house theatres isn’t very big of a jump in view of the fact that lots of users probably kicked off the journey for lighting via a remote control to make the full theatre room experience perfect. Personally the iPod touch controllers are a miracle and we use one for every one of our house’s televisions. When you consider that we don’t do the non-PVR style of watching any more, it felt like there was always a bunch of things to flick on and it wasted my time using the first changer and then the next one until things were setup, only to repeat the method after the movie was completed.

Speaking of remotes, the integration of items from Zwave with home entertainment is inching increasingly common by the day with many of the more innovating vendors making infrared integration from any home automation system recently and because of this one can then perform stuff such as switching the station of a radio that’s across the home with your wireless Zwave device. It’s exciting, and the details are described better at Home automation products when contrasted against some X10 sites so it’s a informative spot to see.
It’s apparent that he is entirely too eager when discussing this stuff.